Eh ZS with your comradrie and tribalism, the individual involved held a german atpl.....he would'nt have been part of your brillcream club!!
Anyway the folk at Cork reckon they had to climb out of the valley to land such was it they were so low.
Another lesson.....they did a right hand orbit with the Capt flying so he had'nt a clue where the rwy was on the right downwind, together with Cork being 502 AMSL and the terrain at 4 miles from the THR at say sea level, a real cocktail to get sucked into.
We all can f@ck it up but to do it twice is not on. If it was me I would have climbed to circuit alt of 2500' got radar vectors from Banon did the ILS and groveled to the F/O about overcookingthe first approach.
Ahh ....cant beat arm chair flying!!